They had a gym/workout center... in the basement of the building where most of us IT contractors were. I was shown it on my welcome tour, but told that I couldn't use it.
A department was really happy with what I did for them (with their website) so they invited me to a department picnic... then their secretary called me back sheepishly to un-invite me; said she that wasn't allowed to invite me after all because I was a contractor.
I left in three months because the commute sucked, but the silly and frankly childish stuff like that didn't hurt when making the decision to leave.
Except that Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of Net Neutrality, while republicans are 99% opposed.
Hmm it's almost like there is a clear difference between the parties an a critical issue at impacts all of us.
You might even say that the bothsiderism that people who are stupid or intellectually dishonest constantly engage in is absolute fraudulent nonsense.
Fair enough.
One party is big on promoting and protecting the killing of babies in the womb, and the other isn't. That's slightly more important to me than net neutrality.
a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of a job nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word processor,
What struck me was the absurd notion of the whole scam. You have stuck someone in an advertising loop, they will not be happy, seriously why would you expect them to buy anything, the inane greed of psychopaths.
Reminds me of the early web, popup hell, every attempt to close a popup opened three more - seriously, did they really think you we going to just finally say "ok, ok, I'll buy something, I give up!"
... it helps people realize that what is "news" has always been subjective.
It's not like the three big sellers of laundry detergent ads, or the big syndicate sellers of classified and print ads, had some sort of magical truthy dust that made their "news" super accurate.
In other words, hopefully the very crappiness of Facebook "news" helps people learn that.
... it helps people realize that what is "news" has always been subjective.
It's not like the three big sellers of laundry detergent ads, or the big syndicate sellers of classified and print ads, had some sort of magical truthy dust that made their "news" super accurate.
They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters.
It's a strange world when you get mocked over some "real" abstract concept like "intellectual property".
Pretty sure the clothes are "real" and have a similar stupid logo on them. They probably have the same Indian or South American company manufacture the stuff.
The smart kids have dropped FB and "smart" phones as well. Their internet is on one device in one room at home. They carry a "dumb" 3G "burner" phone with the battery removed and taped to the back, if they feel they need to carry a cell phone at all.
They've realized that paying to have one's privacy, security, and freedom violated by both corporations and government in exchange for convenience and "cool" is a very, very bad deal.
That's one of the reasons why they're the smart kids.
basically sucking up Western pensioner's pensions to guarantee a fairly high quality of life due to country itself being much poorer than country that pensioner comes from.
So in other words, commerce. Both sides benefit from the exchange.
The same people in a different system would probably produce superior output.
And they do. Mandarin Chinese have about an order of magnitude higher average IQ than, say, Euro-Americans. Which is why US universities discriminate against them.
Remember back when books were linear, but the the technical revolution of Choose Your Own Adventure overturned hundreds of years of the art form by giving the reader just what they had always wished for: editorial control over the art they consume.
I remember those books as just containing a lot of story paths, written by others, and I wanted to (and did) pretty much explore them all.
It was new and different, and really cool, but I figured out pretty quickly that I wasn't really choosing my own adventure so much as reading a lot of story variants spun out of the same basic premise.,
For example, during the beta phase, Alexa learned to understand a customer's mistaken command of "Play 'Good for What'" and correct them by playing Drake's song "Nice for What."
Thank God! We were all waiting on tenterhooks for that problem to be solved!
I never thought anyone would buy a $1000 phone that was built for $140. That is probably why I am not in sales.
Yep, same here.
I can get a phone that does everything I want - navigate roads, web browse, email, make calls, stupid yet useful apps (e.g. restaurant coupons) - for $100 - $200. Headphone jack, removable battery.
I never thought anyone would buy a $1000 phone that was built for $140. That is probably why I am not in sales.
Yep, same here.
I can get a phone that does everything I want - navigate roads, web browse, email, make calls, stupid yet useful apps (e.g. restaurant coupons) - for $100 - $200. Headphone jack, removable battery.
You know Zombie Steve isn't holding a gun to your heads, right? You are perfectly free to buy an Android phone - even if it comes with a notch and costs just as much as an iPhone XR.
Or even if it's perfectly usable, notch-less, has a headphone jack and removable battery, and costs $100 - $200.
Have you noticed that all these "AI systems" play Chess and Go? Very odd.
Thank you for spamming the entire thread with your imperceptive and unenlightened comments.
There's nothing odd about the choice of chess and Go whatsoever. Humanity has thousands of years of experience with these games. We know they aren't trivial, and we know they're not so complex that we can't understand progress, when we see it.
Impressively long comment, but it doesn't change the fact that what computers are good at is games - things with well defined, and complete sets of rules.
Yes, you can gamify a lot of things (e.g. factories, to some extent), and very profitably, but you can't gamify all of existence. It still isn't general AI, which is the point.
The language is best known for its system of noun classes, numbering four in total. They tend to be divided among the following semantic lines:
I - most animate objects, men
II - women, water, fire, violence, and exceptional animals[7]
Hmm, sounds "sexist" right out of the box. Men are living things, women are uncontrollable forces of nature.
Yet another reskinned Chrome, can never have enough of those. It wasn't even 5 years ago when we had a healthy selection of browser engines, some of them even web standards compliant. Now Chromium/Chrome devoured the entire market, and Google has final say on how the web is rendered.
Well, despite Firefox trying to continuously look like Chrome, it isn't Chrome powered.
Slashdot Mirror
Next you'll be telling me that The Sniffer isn't real either :(
I worked somewhere like that ... for three months.
They had a gym/workout center ... in the basement of the building where most of us IT contractors were. I was shown it on my welcome tour, but told that I couldn't use it.
A department was really happy with what I did for them (with their website) so they invited me to a department picnic ... then their secretary called me back sheepishly to un-invite me; said she that wasn't allowed to invite me after all because I was a contractor.
I left in three months because the commute sucked, but the silly and frankly childish stuff like that didn't hurt when making the decision to leave.
I just outsource my AI paper publishing to the Chinese.
That's nothing ... I just outsource my AI paper publishing to AI itself.
(What good is AI if it can't write research papers???)
Except that Democrats are overwhelmingly in favor of Net Neutrality, while republicans are 99% opposed.
Hmm it's almost like there is a clear difference between the parties an a critical issue at impacts all of us.
You might even say that the bothsiderism that people who are stupid or intellectually dishonest constantly engage in is absolute fraudulent nonsense.
Fair enough.
One party is big on promoting and protecting the killing of babies in the womb, and the other isn't. That's slightly more important to me than net neutrality.
a computer pioneer who emancipated many a frazzled secretary from the shackles of a job nearly a half-century ago by building and marketing the first computerized word processor,
What struck me was the absurd notion of the whole scam. You have stuck someone in an advertising loop, they will not be happy, seriously why would you expect them to buy anything, the inane greed of psychopaths.
Reminds me of the early web, popup hell, every attempt to close a popup opened three more - seriously, did they really think you we going to just finally say "ok, ok, I'll buy something, I give up!"
... it helps people realize that what is "news" has always been subjective.
It's not like the three big sellers of laundry detergent ads, or the big syndicate sellers of classified and print ads, had some sort of magical truthy dust that made their "news" super accurate.
In other words, hopefully the very crappiness of Facebook "news" helps people learn that.
... it helps people realize that what is "news" has always been subjective.
It's not like the three big sellers of laundry detergent ads, or the big syndicate sellers of classified and print ads, had some sort of magical truthy dust that made their "news" super accurate.
They have no affiliation with the real Supreme. They are counterfeiters.
It's a strange world when you get mocked over some "real" abstract concept like "intellectual property".
Pretty sure the clothes are "real" and have a similar stupid logo on them. They probably have the same Indian or South American company manufacture the stuff.
The smart kids have dropped FB and "smart" phones as well. Their internet is on one device in one room at home. They carry a "dumb" 3G "burner" phone with the battery removed and taped to the back, if they feel they need to carry a cell phone at all.
They've realized that paying to have one's privacy, security, and freedom violated by both corporations and government in exchange for convenience and "cool" is a very, very bad deal.
That's one of the reasons why they're the smart kids.
Strat
Where exactly are these two or three kids?
What they need, what they deserve, is the opportunity to learn this fundamental field.
And ... some aptitude for it.
basically sucking up Western pensioner's pensions to guarantee a fairly high quality of life due to country itself being much poorer than country that pensioner comes from.
So in other words, commerce. Both sides benefit from the exchange.
The same people in a different system would probably produce superior output.
And they do. Mandarin Chinese have about an order of magnitude higher average IQ than, say, Euro-Americans. Which is why US universities discriminate against them.
If it's a 'free and open Internet except for Alex Jones, who we must "deplatform"', then it's not a 'free and open Internet'.
Remember back when books were linear, but the the technical revolution of Choose Your Own Adventure overturned hundreds of years of the art form by giving the reader just what they had always wished for: editorial control over the art they consume.
I remember those books as just containing a lot of story paths, written by others, and I wanted to (and did) pretty much explore them all.
It was new and different, and really cool, but I figured out pretty quickly that I wasn't really choosing my own adventure so much as reading a lot of story variants spun out of the same basic premise.,
For example, during the beta phase, Alexa learned to understand a customer's mistaken command of "Play 'Good for What'" and correct them by playing Drake's song "Nice for What."
Thank God! We were all waiting on tenterhooks for that problem to be solved!
I thought you said it was already too late? But now we have another two years to turn it around, if we just follow your policy prescriptions?
with emissions in China up 4.7%, in the US by 2.5% and in India by 6.3% in 2018
Ah, that explains why the most vitriol will certainly be aimed at China and India. Right?
Nope, and I haven't needed any support.
I never thought anyone would buy a $1000 phone that was built for $140. That is probably why I am not in sales.
Yep, same here.
I can get a phone that does everything I want - navigate roads, web browse, email, make calls, stupid yet useful apps (e.g. restaurant coupons) - for $100 - $200. Headphone jack, removable battery.
WTH would I want to pay $100+ for it?
Missed a 0 there, but you get the idea, lol
I never thought anyone would buy a $1000 phone that was built for $140. That is probably why I am not in sales.
Yep, same here.
I can get a phone that does everything I want - navigate roads, web browse, email, make calls, stupid yet useful apps (e.g. restaurant coupons) - for $100 - $200. Headphone jack, removable battery.
WTH would I want to pay $100+ for it?
You know Zombie Steve isn't holding a gun to your heads, right? You are perfectly free to buy an Android phone - even if it comes with a notch and costs just as much as an iPhone XR.
Or even if it's perfectly usable, notch-less, has a headphone jack and removable battery, and costs $100 - $200.
Thank you for spamming the entire thread with your imperceptive and unenlightened comments.
There's nothing odd about the choice of chess and Go whatsoever. Humanity has thousands of years of experience with these games. We know they aren't trivial, and we know they're not so complex that we can't understand progress, when we see it.
Impressively long comment, but it doesn't change the fact that what computers are good at is games - things with well defined, and complete sets of rules.
Yes, you can gamify a lot of things (e.g. factories, to some extent), and very profitably, but you can't gamify all of existence. It still isn't general AI, which is the point.
Interesting. Wikipedia says:
The language is best known for its system of noun classes, numbering four in total. They tend to be divided among the following semantic lines: I - most animate objects, men II - women, water, fire, violence, and exceptional animals[7]
Hmm, sounds "sexist" right out of the box. Men are living things, women are uncontrollable forces of nature.
So if the source language allows neuter, but the target language requires a gender, it will give both possible translations?
That's actually ... kinda useful.
Dang, I was prepared to be all outraged one way or another ;)
Yet another reskinned Chrome, can never have enough of those. It wasn't even 5 years ago when we had a healthy selection of browser engines, some of them even web standards compliant. Now Chromium/Chrome devoured the entire market, and Google has final say on how the web is rendered.
Well, despite Firefox trying to continuously look like Chrome, it isn't Chrome powered.
Yet.